Victoria Wade Landscape Architecture
Wales, United Kingdom
March 2025
Spec design (non-building)
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
Victoria Wade Landscape Architecture is a Landscape Architecture and Garden Design practice based in Wales, UK. Founded in 2013 by wife and husband team Victoria and Joe Wade, they are a multi RHS Gold Medal Winning Landscape Institute registered practice with a mission to enhance life for people, planet and future generations through inspiring, biodiverse and responsible landscape design. Their focus is on high end residential and community projects that enable people to develop deeper relationships to the natural world through sympathetic, robust and sustainable landscape design that creates inspiring, beautiful outdoor spaces for people and wildlife to enjoy. The team at Victoria Wade have established a thriving, sustainable plant nursery based in Gower, to supply the plants for their local projects and improve the efficiency and environmental impact of their supply chain. Social and environmental sustainability and responsibility lies at the heart of their approach and as such they are a BCORP Certified organisation with a commitment to active contribution to the 1% For The Planet initiative.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.8
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 23.4
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 20.9
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 24.8
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 3.2
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.